But the Bavarian leaders turned on Hitler as soon as he left them alone. His speech at the Bürgerbräukeller was designed to get the crowd to pressure them into joining the coup. Hitler knew the Bavarian leaders were reluctant to join his march on Berlin. Bavaria became the center of a large network of right-wing militia groups who believed the lie and were ready to act on it. Instead, Germany had been “stabbed in the back,” betrayed by civilian politicians (democrats and socialists, controlled, Hitler said, by Jews). He went to the beer hall to give a speech.įor five years, Hitler and others on the German right had been telling their followers a lie: that Germany had not really lost World War I. Hitler wanted to enlist them in a “March on Berlin” to overturn the democratic government. But at this beer hall, the political, military, and police leaders of the state of Bavaria were meeting. The coup started in an unlikely spot - a beer hall in Munich, the Bürgerbräukeller, very far from the capital city of Berlin and its parliament. In November 1923, Adolf Hitler led a violent coup against the democratic system of Germany’s Weimar Republic.
The real threat comes from people in business suits or police uniforms who are inside the system - and that threat remains.Ī historical example illustrates the point. But these people and their criminal actions are not the most dangerous threat to our democracy. Rioters could plot to assault members of Congress. A member of the mob could kill a police officer. The guy in the Viking hat and his friends could break windows. But we need to understand a crucial point. The fallout from these events has been dramatic and will continue. Capitol, journalists and politicians began speaking of a coup. Very soon after the nation watched in horror as a mob ransacked the U.S.
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